The Man Who Murdered Admiral Darlan: Vichy, the Allies and the Resistance in French North Africa

Bonnier’s biography reads like an absorbing novel, with its twists and turns, reconstructed dialogue and author’s acute observations. As well as being a tragic human story, It is an illuminating study of the convoluted political context of the affair, which will be unfamiliar to some Anglophone readers.

Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon is one of France’s most distinguished historians of the Second World War, Vichy and the Resistance. A graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and a doctor of history, she has written numerous award-winning books, including biographies of Jean Moulin and Marshal Pétain.

The translator, Richard Carswell, is the author of The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory (2019).